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Thanks to reader Erik, we have a little more information on Fridtjof Brondby, which we’ve added to the Brondby page in the Vault. Apparently Brondby also designed a 20mm antitank rifle, although we do not […]

If we are discussing HIGH capacity hand-guns pistol there we can’t omit Soviet ВАГ-73 designed by В.А.Герасименко (hence ВАГ). It use its own 7.62mm case-less round, its magazine holds 48 rounds. You can see photos of it here:http://topwar.ru/33165-avtomaticheskiy-bezgilzovyy-pistolet-gerasimenko-vag-73.html
(2nd photo from top – ВАГ-72 (24-round variant), 3rd photo from top – mid-1940s Gerasimenko pistol for 7.62×25 Tokarev cartridge), scroll down too see cartridge

You probably think of TNSh 20mm tank auto-cannon. It is tank version of famous ShVAK aircraft auto-cannon. With 750 rounds you should not run out of ammo. However other variants existed:
– with DShK big-bore machine gun (early production)
– with 37mm gun ZiS-19 (ballistic-wise equal to 37mm AA gun 61-K) prototype
– with 45mm gun ZiS-19BM, works abandoned after introduction of T-70 (prototype)
– with double DShK machine gun for AA defense (prototype)
Also if you consider that it is too light armament you can always get BM-8-24http://www.militaryfactory.com/imageviewer/ar/pic-detail.asp?armor_id=790&sCurrentPic=pic1

The grip angle (or rather, total lack of an “angle”) helps make this one look like something from three decades earlier.

It wouldn’t look out of place in an episode of “The Wild, Wild West”, as somebody’s prototype automatic pistol, probably in the hands of a nefarious Ruritanian intelligence officer, probably a colonel or above.